Ramp Creek Limestone Member
Lithostratigraphy: Mammoth Cave Limestone Megagroup >>Ullin Limestone >>Ramp Creek Limestone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Mississippian Subsystem >>Valmeyeran Series
Allostratigraphy: Kaskaskia Sequence
Primary source
Willman, H. B., Elwood Atherton, T. C. Buschbach, Charles Collinson, John C. Frye, M. E. Hopkins, Jerry A. Lineback, and Jack A. Simon, 1975, Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 95, 261 p.
Contributing author(s)
Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback
Name
Original description
The Ramp Creek Limestone Member of the Ullin Limestone (Stockdale, 1929, p. 233-242).
Derivation
Named for the village of Ramp Creek, Monroe County, Indiana.
Other names
History/background
The name "Ramp Creek" was originally applied to the lower part of the Harrodsburg Limestone, but Harrodsburg was later restricted to the upper, purer limestone (Smith, 1965).
Type section
Type location
The type section of the Ramp Creek Limestone Member is located near Ramp Creek, Monroe County, Indiana, in an exposure of 21 feet of siliceous and argillaceous limestone (NW NW 35, 8N-1W).
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Stratigraphic relationships
The Ramp Creek in Illinois is the lower, cherty, argillaceous limestone of the Ullin (Lineback, 1966).
Extent and thickness
The Ramp Creek is 0-490 feet thick.
Lithology
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Well log characteristics
Fossils
The Ramp Creek includes the brachiopod Marginirugus magnus Zone.
Age and correlation
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Remarks
References
LINEBACK, J. A., 1966, Deep-water sediments adjacent to the Borden Siltstone (Mississippian) delta in southern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 401, 48 p.
SMITH, N. M., 1965, Sanders Group and subjacent Muldraugh Formation (Mississippian) in Indiana: Indiana Geological Survey Report of Progress 29, 20 p.
STOCKDALE, P. B., 1929, Stratigraphic units of the Harrodsburg Limestone: Indiana Academy of Science Proceedings, 1928, v. 38, p. 233-242.
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